The James Webb Space Telescope has captured captivating images of the Space Butterfly, a nebula thousands of light-years away ...

Primordial black holes are hypothetical black holes thought to have formed moments after the Big Bang. Because they ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

This star cluster is named Pismis 24. It lies in the Lobster Nebula’s core. The nebula is about 5,500 light-years away from Earth.

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Scientists have discovered an unknown object in deep space which appears to have sent an extremely powerful signal in our direction.

NASA's Voyager 1 launched 48 years ago in September 1977 on a decades-spanning journey to study the cosmos and search for ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have investigated a "failed star," or brown dwarf, nicknamed "The ...

Astronomers studying an oddball brown dwarf called “The Accident” have finally spotted silane, a long-predicted silicon ...

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In a new study, researchers at the University of Chicago have discovered in simulations that a small body under half the size ...

Gravity not only holds us firmly to the ground but also anchors oceans, keeps the atmosphere in place, and binds planets and ...